Almost 6 thousand tons and nearly a kilometer long! At the beginning of this year, the heaviest and longest freight train entered Poland.

photo: PKP LHS press materials/Almost 6 tons and nearly a kilometer long! At the beginning of this year, the heaviest and longest freight train entered Poland.

The Polish railway company PKP Linie Hutnicza Szerokotorowa (PKP LHS) specializes in rail freight transport on wide-gauge lines (with a track gauge of 1520 mm) on its social networks boasted about its new record.

On January 8, a freight train weighing 5,883 gross and measuring 924 m in length entered the Hrubieszów LHS border station with Ukraine. The train, which arrived from Ukraine, was pulled by locomotives made by Newag type 15D / A -112 and 15D / A -113. The train consisted of 66 wagons loaded with iron ore.